Wisest Quotations

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

With the high tax rates, this seems like the wisest choice. They are a strong company in their markets so that seems to be the right course to take.

There is a great deal to be considered in starting a new merchant account, or switching from one account to another. Merchant account companies will send their representative to help you, but their advice is always slanted in their favor. Using an independent consultant is always the wisest choice.

There is nobody who can, with any certainty, forecast demand. But there is definitely not a need for increased capacity for custom manufacturing. Speculative investment of several hundred million dollars is not the wisest move.

listening to probably the wisest New Yorker that we can know of at this time.

We live in the 21st century, the wisest generation yet to come, where you have the freedom to say anything you want, sue anyone and for anything, and wear a trash bag in style.

Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

To identify that is to sort of identify exactly what we think is happening. We can say generally from a football standpoint, it's something we need to have greater success at. We take ourselves out of field-goal position (by giving up sacks), we stall drives. Sacks also lose field position for us. They put us in a dysfunctional situation when we have that kind of play, but to say why is probably not the wisest thing. We don't want to give (the opposition any advantage). They watch the film and they can see and know.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

The wisest thing to do is disregard revenue that was never supposed to come in anyway,

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

The sharp escalation in gold prices over the past year, up more than 40% over the past 12 months, clearly makes gold one of the wisest investment choices of recent times.

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

This may prove that their policy barring preannouncement and giving earnings guidance may not be the wisest policy. It's not as if providing guidance is a sign of poor governance.

This may prove that their policy barring pre-announcement and giving earnings guidance may not be the wisest policy. It's not as if providing guidance is a sign of poor governance.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Education is one of the wisest investments we can make in America's future. The aid elimination provision is unfair and heavy-handed and should be taken off the books completely.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

The longer that it goes on that we need to do repairs to maintain it when we know that we're going to need a new structure that's not the wisest use of public dollars.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Wisest men / Have erred, and by bad women been deceived; / And shall again, pretend they ne'er so wise.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

He that knows nothing of it, may by chance be a Prophet; while the wisest that is may happen to miss. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

The wisest have the most authority.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.